Adebayo Adelabu, minister of power, says customers in the northern part of Nigeria who suffer blackouts will not be billed by the distribution companies (DisCos).
Adebayo Adelabu, the minister of power, says customers in the northern part of Nigeria who experience blackouts will not be billed by the distribution companies .
Adelabu said he would meet with the chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission and representatives of the DisCos to resolve the matter.a power outage in the north-east, north-west and parts of north-central after 330-kilovolt Ugwaji-Apir double circuit transmission lines 1 and 2 tripped.
Also, the TCN said the Shiroro-Kaduna line was vandalised and caused a reduction of bulk electricity to Kaduna, Kano, and other major cities in the north.Addressing State House correspondents on Monday after a meeting with the president on the matter, Adelabu said customers would not be charged for electricity they did not use.
“There should not be billing of any sort for any customer, be it household customers, office consumers, or industrial consumers; they would be immune from billings from those periods. “The transmission company of Nigeria has already set out to fix this line. What they asked for, which has been provided for them now, is the security cover of the national security adviser through the chief of army staff and air staff to enable them to restore the damaged lines. We are optimistic that very soon this will be restored.
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